The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-08
CURRENT COM MHNT.

JUDGING from the number Of combinationt
and trusts formed and forming to prevent com
petition. competition must be the death Of
trade. Times.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND can make himself
solid in the Northwest by issuing an order, whea
he arrives in Minneapolis. abolishing Land Conn
missioner Sparks.-Minneapolis Tribune.
THE independent movement, in Maryland
grows IN power every week. A storm is gath
ering for tho office-jobbing firm of Cleveland,
German and Observation-Disclosures Press.
THE main difference between Henry George
and the Anarchists is that they tried to esfab.
lish by violence what be wants to get majority
of people to vote for.-Philadelphia American
SENATOR VOORHEES, has q son who thinks his
father ought to have piacecn the next Demo.
cratic presidential ticket The Senator's SOM
are very fond OF their pa.-Atlanta Constitution.
EAST TENNESSEE. which is Republican gave
a majority of 10000 for prohibition. but the
Democratic regions defeated it. Old Sumptuary
Legislation did the business. hiladelpha
Press.
IT won't do for Mr. Cleveland to plead that ht
didn't know the Cyclopedia was loaded. Any
how he ought to have remembered that hif
friend and admirer, Mr.. Dana is supposed t.
know il all by heart-New York Tribune.
WE canhot help thinking that If a large major.
itv Of the white voters of Tennessee want pro-
hibition they can secure il by passing law,
much simpler and more effective method thak
by the amendment of the constitution.-Bosto
Herald.
GENERAL Crook never did Drawer thing
than the making of his report on. the Colorow
campaign. It is certain to gain him the enmity
of all the Indian haters in the West. and they
are neither few uninfuential.- Philadelphis
Inquirer.
IT is time for the knights of Labor to drive
off the shams, merceDaries. frauds salary-grabs
bers and bragcarts who have SO long hung to
their skirts while devouring their substance,
and using them for ends which every honest
man must despise.-New York Sun.
If thin convention results in larne de-
crease OF membership as the last. and the pro-
cess is continued from year TO year. it will no.
be long before the Knights of Labor will become
vanishing body, leaving nothing but its tradi.
tions and the lessons of its experience. New
York Times.
THERE is considerable excirement in thu
scientific world JUST now about man who still
lives after having had four ounces of his braiu
exsected. There is nothing at all strange IN the
fact We have known several men who lived to
be over seventy without any brains at all.
New York Herald.
In ono of the Oldest Catholic towns OF Louisi-
ana we note that the ceremonies of the Jewish
Now Year took place in the Baptist church and
that the musical services we're conducted by q
Hebrew lady. wife of Catholic gentleman, who
Is himself OF mixed Protestant and Catholic lin
age-Waco TEX Day
IN the whole line Of Republican presidents,
from Lincoln down. not man OF them whined
or whimpersd because the dignity" of the Office
tcnt to for the dignity of the Office single
handed and made fuss about it They were
dienifed gentlemen. Hartford Post
THE railroad companies are discriminating
against the interests of Eastern consumers and
handlers of wheat in making through freight
arrangements for the shipment OF wheat from
the West to Liverpool and to other European
ports at the same rate that Is charged for haul
ing it to the seaboard. Somebody has to pay for
the ocean carriage: and il the trunk lines can
transport gram at their present schedule rate so
as to Include the cost of shipment across the
Atlantic. they can afford to give domestic con.
sumers the advantage of lower rate Tor hall
the service. This sort of discrimination is 4
matter that should receive the early attention
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission.-Phiia-
delphia Record.